{"product_id":"2024-llewlyn-cuvee-hildy-rose-of-carignane","title":"2024 Llewlyn 'Cuvee Hildy' Rose of Carignane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI haven't released a Cuvée Hildy in a few years. The 2023 version, a mucho rock'n'roll rosé of old vine Carignane, is still recovering in bottle somewhere in the back of the\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ewarehouse - sort of becoming my lost album, maybe never to be released.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe '24 is a dark rosé of old vine Carignane from Testa Ranch in Mendocino county, about 45 minutes north of Cloverdale where the wine was made. I grapes were picked early in the morning, foot stomped, and pressed the next day. I call it a rosé, but it exists somewhere in the purgatory between rosé and light red. Some of this wine stalled out with some residual sugar, and after giving it a year to slowly chug toward dry, it still had a little too much come harvest. I put this portion on the skins of freshly pressed 2025 Carignan and pulled it off before it picked up too much new-vintage character. The two lots originally felt too different to put together: one a touch too reductive, the other a little too volatile. With time the two felt more in harmony together rather than separate. So here we are. A year and change in a mix of large-format wood and regular barrels. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalty watermelon, red Gatorade after an AYSO soccer game, bitter grapefruit, and gravel-y earth. There’s definitely a big, wet kiss of VA, but cold, high acid wines have been a real treat in the recent, somewhat inappropriate heat of northern California. tl;dr: Dark rosé of old vine Carignane. A year and change in barrel, with a little help from the skins of a new vintage. Very electric and high acid — salted red grapefruit, chewing on plum skins, Friday night, and the smell of sun-baked rocks with moss growing on them\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Llewelyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49761873658093,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/3017\/4141\/files\/IMG_2102.jpg?v=1775669883","url":"https:\/\/geminibottleandmarket.com\/products\/2024-llewlyn-cuvee-hildy-rose-of-carignane","provider":"Gemini Bottle Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}